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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Arizona's Race to the Top: What Will It Take to Compete?
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Doherty, Kathryn; Walsh, Kate; Jacobs, Sandi; Neuman-Sheldon, Brenda – National Council on Teacher Quality, 2010
The U.S. Department of Education recently published a notice of draft priorities and requirements for applying for "Race to the Top" (RTT) funding--$4.35 billion in competitive federal grants. Even though it constitutes the smallest piece of education stimulus funding in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, "Race to the Top" represents the…
Descriptors: Competition, Educational Change, Educational Experience, Grants
Putting Michigan in the Driver's Seat for the Race to the Top
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Doherty, Kathryn; Walsh, Kate; Jacobs, Sandi – National Council on Teacher Quality, 2009
In this paper, the authors lay out a number of features of "Race to the Top" funding and what states like Michigan should expect from the upcoming competition. They then provide a description of the kind of strategies--including next steps broken down by key actors and back-of-the-envelope cost calculations for implementing such strategies--being…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Educational Change